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To: IronJack
The fascination may have began with the frustrating fact that no one could find a formula that would predict the nth prime given knowledge of some or all of the (n-1)st primes preceding it. Seems simple enough, but even to this day nobody has been able to do it. See my comments here and here for other reasons, which is by no means an exhaustive list. You could easily spend your whole life studying prime numbers.
31 posted on 02/23/2016 10:08:06 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

All you need to know is that it’s not divisible by 2, 3, 5, or 7. That shouldn’t be that hard.


34 posted on 02/23/2016 10:57:40 AM PST by IronJack
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